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2021高考英语二轮复习综合训练21(含解析) (优师原创) Ⅰ.阅读理解 British artist Amy Sharrocks collects nearly all kinds of water. In 2013 she set up the Museum of Water, a live piece of artwork that travels all over the world and invited people to donate water—from spit to melted snow—in a bottle and discuss what it means to them. The program aims to understand why people treasure water and help prepare them for a drier future and climate，Ms. Sharrocks told an audience of climate experts, activists and museum curators(馆长)．“For example, we show them how to have three-minute showers to better deal with water shortages，” she said. Amy is not alone as a matter of fact. As world leaders increasingly face up to the serious results of climate change，curators are planning a new wave of museums, which are devoted to what many consider a vital issue of the times. In 2015, a former lawyer Miranda Massie created the first United States museum which was entirely devoted to climate change in New York City. “Climate change is affecting virtually every aspect of our lives，” Ms. Massie said. “But we cant fight the problem with top-down policies alone. We need the public to participate and museums are a way to open peoples mind to what matters.” Bridget McKenzie, director of Flow Associates, wanted to raise awareness of the dilemma of the Pacific island nations, which are particularly vulnerable(易受伤害的) to rising sea level. So with her team she set up a “ghost boat” made of old fish nets at the University of Cambridges Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and asked visitors what they would take with them if they were suddenly forced to leave their homes. While museums can be a powerful way of communicating the effects of climate change, they should also practice what they spread and control their own emissions (排放物). “Roughly half of cities’ emissions come from energy use in buildings，” said Elliot Goodger, a museums association representative of the West Midlands in Britain，“museums have a dut